Vital December - An Anoraks View

Last month when I signed off from my monthly 'Anoraks View' I stated that I wouldn't compile the stats for December as it would mean missing the all important minutes of seeing out the old and welcoming the New Year, and if I did that I'd probably be needing a divorce lawyer very soon afterwards.

At the time, that was a very easy statement to make, but as the month of December wore on and so many good articles were published and people who had never submitted an article before saw there name in lights for the first time I 'sadly' started to wonder just how well we would fair against previous months.

The curiosity became unbearable and although I knew that 12 midnight on New Years Eve was, even for me, a bit sad, I started to conjure devious ways to get my monthly stats fix. The in a moment of inspiration it hit me ... as my wife got changed (at about 9 o'clock) I quickly turned on the laptop and downloaded the stats as they stood then. So on the basis that anybody who posted after 9 o'clock New Years Eve doesn't deserve to have those few extra points counted I have something to share with you fellow anoraks out there...

December was a funny month - On a club by club basis Arsenal took back the 6th place spot that we nicked from them in November but Blackpool somehow managed to nearly double their November figure and leapfrog from 10th to 4th ... Bournemouth meanwhile came from outside of the top twenty and stormed into 8th knocking us down another peg to 9th

Now before you all start feeling downhearted there is some excellent news....

We may have slipped a few places in the ratings but the contribution to our site has still grown. In November we amassed nearly 5000 points whereas in December we managed a staggering 5794 .. and not only that.... when you compare the number of contributors each site has, we have the highest 'points per member' average in the top ten - That means that on average Vital Pompey members say more and contribute more than any other site in the top ten..

And there's more .....

Once again our very own 'Landlord Rug' amassed our highest individual total with a crackin' 897 and finished in 4th place in the individual network rankings. I reclaimed 2nd from Pompeycarpet but just missed out on the network top ten again (13th) but as a site we had a staggering 9 members in the network top 100 individual rakings. The positions were as follows:

Now all this shows that once again Vital Pompey and the Vital Network as a whole is growing which of course is excellent news but let's remember something 'Toronto4Pompey' mentioned a while back that has become a bit of a mantra of mine when publishing these stats and that is; that its 'quality' not 'quantity' that counts, which is true of course but once again it's fair to say that the quality of what get published on Vital Pompey is second to none and if we can maintain that I'm sure we will become the biggest, not just the best Pompey site on the internet.

Finally, as always remember every bodies contribution is valued and valid and it really doesn't matter if you just log on for a minute or two to take part in the polls or the prediction league... but as I say every month, next time you do just spare a minute to say 'hello' in one of the many forums or article discussions going on, you're guaranteed a warm welcome.

I'll be back with more stats in early February ... Lucky You :)

Written by Chix.

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excellent stuff Chix... the 'downfall' of rivals has seen an upturn in fortunes for this network - i believe that the rivals lot for both bournemouth and blackpool brought across the rivals sites, which meant an increase in members and so on, i think millwall has also done this back along - so when you also take into the extra hundreds, probably thousands of members that they brought with them we are doing even better... we are getting bigger and better all the time, everyone's contribution is vitally important, so long may this continue, if we keep working as a team we will rise even higher up the food chain and will firmly establish ourselves as not only the best pompey site on the net, but also the biggest - lets make it happen fellas!

For info Villa and Millwall (the top 2) have over 7 times the amount of active contributors than we do and Bournemouth and Blackpool more than double - Pound for pound Pompey, Rotherham and Leeds have the most active sites per membership..